Dorian Yates Quotes

I never stopped training, I never stopped working out.

I couldn't get as big as a bodybuilder. I tried to put on as much weight in the right places as I could. My weightlifting was impressive for me, but not for some of the guys I see down at the gym.

I'm not really into weight training.

My trainer is with me all day. We train before I come to work, and then I just keep training all day.

When I decided to become a bodybuilder, I actually marked down a date. It was Oct. 8, 2002. The rest is pretty much history. It was an amazing feeling to know that I had the potential to become a champion.

All the hard work starts in the gym.

I'm still in the gym every day for training, putting in the same hard work every week. That's the only way I know how to do it.

It took me nine years to get to the level of being Mr. Olympia, and it's pretty much a 24-hour-a-day job every day of the year, really, if you want to compete on that level.

I started messing around in my teen years but didn't really begin training properly until the age of 21. I did a lot of reading prior to that - Mike Mentzer, Arthur Jones and all other notable bodybuilding authors - and just came up with a routine that worked for me.

I might go down as well to 125 and try it first in the gym to see how it goes.

I train heavy and hard every workout. That's the only way I knew. I know it was the key to my success.

I tend to focus on core work most of all in the gym.

Let's face it: fitness is boring. But it's critical to be extremely dedicated to whatever you decide to take up to achieve a desired result. There's no way you are going to get there without dedication, which is the key for me.

No matter what I'm doing, I'm training. I'm training every day and I think that's something I won't lose - no matter what I do, no matter what event I'm at, I always find a way to train. It's just something that I love to do.

Every morning, I crawl out of bed. I sit there and think, 'Do I really need this?' And I drag myself to the gym in my garage. It's not fun. I hate it. I work out alone. Weights.

I'm actually going to the gym, working on getting not fatter, just a bit bulkier.

Gold's was the first bodybuilding gym made for bodybuilders.

Bodybuilding is much like any other sport. To be successful, you must dedicate yourself 100% to your training, diet and mental approach.

I took my weight training to a new level.

When I was younger, my coach, Liang Chow, made all the decisions. I would go to the gym for practice, do exactly what Chow told me to do, go home, come back and start all over again. If Chow told me to do 50 squat jumps, I did 50 squat jumps.

I want to bulk up. I'm a skinny guy.

In fitness, there are no short cuts. It involves immense discipline and hard work.

I want to do an action movie where they say, 'Go the gym and get ripped like Linda Hamilton.'

I train my butt off every single day.

I don't know how many times I've went to bed at five, six o'clock in the morning and woke up at 10, running four miles because I wanted to beat GSP that bad.